Conceptualize your adaptation by considering fidelity, narrative, context, genre, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound.

Literature to film: Adapt a portion of Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Vol. 1 (Coates, 2016) to film. You will conceptualize your adaptation by considering fidelity, narrative, context, genre, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound. Provide these details and then write the script for one scene in your imagined film adaptation. (Word limit 500)

1. What’s the title of your adaptation?

2. What section of the comic are you adapting?

a. Provide specific page numbers

b. Describe what’s happening in this section (what’s happening; the content)

3. Describe the form of the section you are adapting 

a. How is the comic (and your specific section) drawn? How could you describe the visual style? (i.e., what colour choices, ratio of text to image, panel arrangement, perspective, etc.)

b. Will you use the visual style of the comics in your adaptation? How?

4. What genre of film are you adapting the comic to? (animation, action, documentary, avant-garde, etc.)

5. Characters/characterization

a. What characters are in the section you’ve chosen?

b. How will you cast (or animate) the characters?

c. What aspects of the character(s) from the comic do you think are important to convey in your adaptation?

6. Narration

a. Will your film use voiceover narration?